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so Moscone is getting back into the power supply game in a serious way so this is the jewel 700 watt power supply and that is Joule the unit of electricity rather than jeweled the sparkly thing that goes on ladies and some men okay so we have an 80 plus bronze rating on this particular power supply is a 700 watt unit which makes it I mean I remember when a 700 watt unit was like who needs that that's ridiculous 700 watts who could possibly ever need 700 us well now 700 watts is basically like a mid range or sort of value performance range of wattage so that's what we're going to be looking at today let's have a look at what are the overall features and ratings and everything else that we might possibly care about so we've got a full range input with 99 0.99 active power factor correction okay that's good dual 12-volt rails okay we've got a high reliability thermal controlled nanotech bearing fan that's good fan can be the difference between a power supply that I would use in a power supply I wouldn't use regardless of how well it performs okay efficiency up to 86% Seanie cables connectors support we'll have a look at that okay we've got over current protection over voltage protection under voltage protection short current short-circuit protection over power protection and under load protection so it's got all of the electrical safeguards that would be potentially needed in a bad situation all right packaging is fairly simple on this particular power supply unit it's kind of a no-nonsense approach so we've got just a you know graphical sleeve that goes over a plain black box and let's see how well pack the power supply isn't here so hmm that's probably okay I guess so what I would probably do is uh I would suggest that having a little bit of foam around the power supply wouldn't necessarily be a bad idea but it'll probably arrive okay if you have any issues muskan has legendary army support so I'm sure they'll get you taken care of right away so here's the power supply itself let's check the accessories first a lot of a lot of accessories as I mentioned this is a value power supply so you've got a couple of black cable ties we have some silver screws and we've also got a standard computer power cable now when it comes to power supplies I'm a big fan of the KISS principle that is keep it simple stupid and the muskan joule 700 watt definitely does that so we've got a plain black finish on it we've got a label that basically tells you the things you would potentially want to know about it so that is how many amps on the respective rails so you can see either of the 12-volt rails is capable of providing up to 26 amps okay and that is for a total of let me see 12 volt combined output is up to 51 amps so if you were to load up both of those that is the maximum that you can put on the 12 volt rail on this power supply so let's go ahead put this guy over and so you got nothing on the other side just your plain black power supply here is the nanotech fan that is apparently lubrication free so it uses some kind of fancy-pants nanotechnology in order to do that and they claim up to 120 thousand hours mean time between failure for the fens so which means that this is an unusual thing it should actually outlast the power supply which is rated at 100 thousand hours mean time between failure so in terms of pre connected cables this I like because it has only ones that you will absolutely need it's got a 24-pin pre connected and it's got an 8 pin well that is a 4 plus 4 pin and they slide together unlike some of the the cheaper one so I don't know if they're cheaper or more expensive but I definitely like the slide together design better so you see you can separate them like this but then you don't just clip them together you actually slide one connector into the side of the other so then you make your 8 pin connector that way and it's much easier to keep them together when you're trying to reach somewhere and plug in your a pen so everything else is modular so it has a nearly fully modular design so how let's have a look at what we've got included in terms of modular cables looks like we've got one what is this EPS 12 volt 2 motherboard EPS 12 volt yeah so we have an additional 8 pin so if we wanted to plug that in we could plug that in and we would have well that's interesting no ground connections there so I guess this is us since this is a secondary 8 pin the assumption is that pretty much no motherboards will actually require hold on just a minute ah I get it okay no no no no no no no okay because it looks like these these connectors are all standard so oh this is neat so you can actually plug this in wherever you want and what it's doing is it's just splitting there you can see there's an additional ground and an additional 12 volt there it's just splitting them so that this end goes into the motherboard which is fully populated in this end because it's only got so many 12 volts in the standard pin out that we're using on all of these outputs then yeah so just splits them okay so that's neat okay so you've got an additional 8 pin so you can plug in fancy-pants some other boards like the classified or like the Big Bang X power from MSI that require multiple 8 pin connectors or well they don't require them but they can accept them to provide more power to the CPU soft slot okay we've got a couple PCI Express connectors okay so these two go in much the same fashion wherever you please and they each have a single cable that terminates in an 8 pin and a 6 pin PCI Express power connector the 8 pin is uses the same sliding design for the additional 2 pins so you can take those off or put them on as you see fit there we go put those back together so you got two of those prop 2 to 8 pin and to 6 pin or for 6 pin PCI power connectors all right next we have only one molex cable so this one plugs into the end it's nice and long actually very very long and then it has four molex and one floppy connector they're all fairly nicely sleeved actually that's one of the things Muskaan's done well on this particular unit is they're not using a cheapo low-quality sleeving that's really easy to see through okay and then finally we've got some SATA cables so each of these has four SATA connectors on them and it looks like yes they are identical so up to eight SATA connectors can be attached to the jewel 700 watt power supply so things Muskaan's done well are going to be the overall oh yeah I've looked at the back there you go so this is typical of a muskan power supply instead of using that honeycomb shape that we typically see so often on other power supplies they've got their cross hat shape okay we've got a power switch we've got an input and there is no voltage selection because it does accept any input voltage so they've got nice leaving on this thing you've got lots and lots of modular cables you can plug any of the cables into any of these connectors which is really really nice the cables aren't super long but so you might need an extension for your eight pin if you're running it in a bottom mounted case that's quite tall but the 24 pin is fine and all the other ones look good I wouldn't mind it seeing a couple more molex connectors but you can always use adapters or use extension cables to get more of those and the reality of it is in my personal system I've only got a single thing connected via molex so right guess it's not that big of a deal anymore SATA connectors are certainly more important so thank you for checking out my unboxing of the joule 700 watt power supply don't forget to subscribe to Linus tech tips from unboxings reviews and other computer videos